Sleeper, Risograph Publication, 2021
Produced and Edited as part of Rosie’s Disobedient Press, Sleeper feature’s 9 new writing commissions and 2 re-printed texts all responding to the idea of mechanics, cars and journeys. We are hoping to release this collection at the end of October and it features work by Francis McKee,Rebecca Tamás, Hussein Mitha, Juliet Jacques, Àkpà Árinzèchukwu, Adrien Howard, CAConrad, Renee Gladman, Lisette May Monroe, K Patrick and Hanif Abdurraqib.
We approached this collection with the idea of a space or place, something more than just a page – and all of the potentials that these things could offer. Through our conversations we stumbled upon the fact that we both have ongoing associations to mechanics and it is often something we use as a metaphor when thinking. Mechanics became the subject; the garage, the vehicles and the journeys. It’s about maintenance and repair was the refrain featured throughout a text we drafted together in order to drum out the themes and reveal the liminal spaces where the words or language could exist.